Fluid-fuel burner



(NO Model.) 2 Shets-Sheet 1.

W. A. STAPP & C. P.JHAMILTON. FLUID IUEL' BURNER.

No. 565,126. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

(No Model.) 7 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. A. STAPP 8a 0. P. HAMILTON.

FLUID FUEL BURNER.

Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

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\VILLIAM A. STAFF AND CHARLES P. HAMILTON, OF TYLER, TEXAS.

FLUID-FUEL BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,126, dated August 4, 1896.

Application filed September 29, 1894. Serial No. 524,504. (No modelJ To (LZZ whmn it vnay concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM A. STAPP and CHARLES P. HAMILTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Tyler, in the county of Smith and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Fluid-Fuel Burner, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to fluid-fuelburners, and the objects in view are to provide asimple and efficient device adapted to feed the fuel as required for the support of combustion and avoid flooding and hence the danger of explosion, and, furthermore, to provide a compact arrangement of parts whereby the device maybe arranged in the fire-box of an ordinary stove or range.

Further objects and advantages of our invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the reservoir. Fig. 8 is a central longitudinal section of the burner-tube and retort and connected parts.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in ailthe figures of the drawings.

1 indicates the reservoir, having an upper compartment 2, which communicates with a lower compartment 3 by means of a passage 4, which in the construction illustrated consists of a tube. This passage is provided with a downwardly-openingvalve 5, and arranged in the lower compartment 3 is a float 6, adapted, when raised by the inflowing fluid, to strike said valve, and by closing the same cut ofi the inlet of fuel. This float comprises a plate 7, to the under side of which is affixed an air-chamber 8.

Communicating with the lower com partment of the reservoir, and provided with a globe-valve 9, is a supply-pipe 10, divided by means of a T-couplin g 11 to form thebranches 12 and 13. The branch 13 is provided with a second globe-valve 14:, and this branch communicates directly with one end of the burner-tube 15. The burner-tube is preferably constructed of two tubular sections 16 and 17, the adjacent heads of which are connected by means of an interposed bar 18.

The retort 19 is arranged vertically above the burner-tube with its axis parallel with that of the burner-tube, whereby the escape of burning fuel from the burner-openings 20 causes a direct contact of the flame with the retort. This retort is supported at its extremiti es by means of the standards or brackets21,which are adapted to rest upon the grate or other fixed part of a stove or range. The branch 12 of the supply-pipe extends through one of the standards 21 and communicates directly with the retort, whereby, when the globe-valve 9 is open and the valve 14 is closed, the fuel flows through the branch 12 into the retort. Suitable tubular conveyers 22 and 23 communicate with the ends of the retort at its top, and after passing longitudinally of the retort to a point adjacent to the center thereof they are carried downward and communicate with the outer extremities of the sections of the burner-tube. The conveyor 22 communicates with the branch 13, adjacent to its point of connection with the burnertube, and the conveyeu communicates di rectly with the opposite end of the burnertube.

The top of the lower compartment of the reservoir is arranged in a horizontal plane corresponding approximately with the axis of the retort, and therefore when the fuel in the retort reaches the level of its axis the passage by which connnunication is had between the upper and lower compartments of the reservoir is closed, thus preventing the overflow of the fuel.

In operation the valve 14: is opened to allow a quantity of fuel to iiow from the reservoir into the member 16 of the burner-tube, and when the latter becomes filled and overflows the surplus is received by the wickpan 2a, which is located. directly under the burner-tube. The fuel in the wick-pan is then ignited and the valve 1 1 is closed, and when the heat produced by the combustion in said pan becomes sufficient to vaporize the fuel in the retort the gas is fed through the conveyers 22 and to the burner. The conveyer 23 is preferably provided with a valve that direct communication between the res ervoir and the burner is provided by means of a branched supply-pipe to enable the burner to be charged previous to starting the apparatus, but said branch is provided with a controlling-valve to out off the supply through this medium when the initial ignition-pan has been charged. The fuel is supplied to the retort from a compartment of the reservoir which islocated in such a plane with relation to the retort as to prevent the retort from be ing filled beyond a certain point, the supply being automatically cut off when said point is reached, and communicating with the top of the retort, to which point the liquid fuel can never rise, are the conveyers, which communicate, respectively, with one of the burner-sections and with the above-mew tioned branch pipe communicating with the other bu rner-section.

through which liquid fuel is supplied to the 1 burner-section is also utilized as a medium for conveying vaporized fuel after the burner f has been started. This specific relative ar- 9 Thus the branch pipe rangement of parts produces a compact apparatus capable of easy regulation and having means for preventing overflow.

It will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described vaporizer and burner having independent tubular burner-sections 16 and 17, a cylindrical retort arranged above and parallel with the burner-sections, a supply-pipe 10 having branches 12 and 13 com- .municating, respectively, with the retort at its bottom and with one of the burner-sections, a controlling-valve in the main portion of the supply-pipe and a similar valve 14 arranged in the branch 13, and vapor-conveyers 22 and 23 communicating with the retort at its top, the former communicating with the branch 13 between the burner-section and the valve 14, and the other conveyer communicating directly with the other burner-section and having a controlling-valve, substantially as specified. 1 In testimony that we claim the foregoing as 5 our own we have hereto affixed our signatures iin the presence of two witnesses.

@ WILLIAM A. STAPP. 9 CHARLES P. HAMILTON.

XVitnesses:

H. A. CAMERON, BERT H. SMITH. 

